LEARN/CREATE (PT)

NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

9:30 pm

Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless"Guac on the Wild Side"
Everyone loves guacamole. And for every person you ask, there's a secret recipe and a preferred style. In the kitchen of his Frontera Grill, Rick prepares the restaurant's classic Mexican version, an institution since the day the place opened. D

Rick Steves' Europe"Siena and Assisi: Italy's Grand Hill Towns"
Rick tours the innovative medieval hospital in Siena and a bakery that makes panforte. He explores the Chianti region and spends a night at a farmhouse where he learns about the Slow Food Movement before following the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi.G

11:00 pm

Theater Talk"Checkers"
Playwright Douglas McGrath, director Terry Kinney, plus actors Anthony LaPaglia and Kathryn Erbe discuss McGrath's new play Checkers, based on the events surrounding Nixon's 1952 Checkers speech where the candidate defended his reputation. More importantly, he pioneered the use of television as an effective political tool. D

11:30 pm

Closer to Truth"Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?"
Are human beings purely physical? Evolved at random and destined to die, extinguished forever? Or are we something more? A spirit or a soul, with existence beyond? What's the relationship between our brains and our consciousness, between the stuff in our skulls and the essence in our minds?. D